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Invite Friends   From the Editor's Desk Points of contact: a short history of door handles We have all become suddenly more aware of the moments when we cannot avoid touching elements of public buildings. Architecture is the most physical, most imposing and most present of the arts - you cannot avoid it yet, strangely, we touch buildings at only a very few points - the handrail, perhaps a light switch and, almost unavoidably, the door handle. This modest piece of handheld architecture is our critical interface with the structure and the material of the building. Yet it is often reduced to the most generic, cheaply made piece of bent metal which is, in its way, a potent critique of the value we place on architecture and our acceptance of its reduction to a commodified envelope rather than an expression of culture and craft. Despite their ubiquity and pivotal role in the haptic experience of architecture, door handles remain oddly under-documented. There are no serious histories and only patchy surveys of design, mostly sponsored by manufacturers. Yet in the development of the design of the door handle we have, in microcosm, the history of architecture, a survey of making and a measure of the development of design and how it relates to manufacture, technology and the body. Continued here TradeBriefs: What's important, not just what's popular! Advertisers of the day IIM Lucknow Team at Eruditus: Gain skills to recognise and adapt to digital disruption in IIM Lucknow's Executive Programme in Digital Transformation Our advertisers help fund the daily operations of TradeBriefs. 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